Samsdog wrote:I mean when you're team sucks that badly you're probably looking for any way to rationalize it. But in the end, their inevitable 75 point season will do the talking.

I don't remember Lange making tons of comments like that when the Pens were bad, and I certainly hope that I'm not repressing them and our announcers really aren't that dumb.

Honestly, I think we're spoiled in Pittsburgh. The fact that we have Steiggy and Errey and used to have Lange and Edzo means we've had some high-quality play-by-play and color, compared to many teams in the league.

Mongoose87 wrote:Honestly, I think we're spoiled in Pittsburgh. The fact that we have Steiggy and Errey and used to have Lange and Edzo means we've had some high-quality play-by-play and color, compared to many teams in the league.

We've got Joe Benanati and Craig Laughlin here in DC. Laughlin's voice makes me want to use the claw end of a hammer to remove my own teeth.

Fischler once made on an "all-time" team during one Devils intermission that I didn't have the remote for...Gretzky wasn't on it...he was called on it by the generic ****** of a host, he made a second team, again, no Gretzky...he said something to the effect that he "might be on my 5th team" - I want to punch him in the head and then have it dissipate into a fine sand...

ZenPenguin wrote:I thought Fischler was smart when I was about 12 years old. I used to read his "who's better" articles in Hockey Digest. I believed that if Fischler said someone was better that he really was. Now, many years later and much wiser (I hope), I realized he is not very smart.

I never read that mag regularly, most because almost every one of those articles made me think "does this guy actually watch them play?"

Fischler once chastised Mario Lemieux for returning to the NHL, saying among other nonsense that Mario was taking away a roster spot from a deserving young player.

That tells you all you need to know about whether or not anyone should concern themselves about what he has to say.